Contact-induced change in the languages of Europe

The rise and development of partitive cases and determiners in Finnic and Basque

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7913541
AutoresSilvia Luraghi (0000-0002-0584-1007, University of Pavia, autor de correspondencia), Merlijn De Smit (0000-0001-9778-1656, Division of Finnish , Stockholm University , Universitetsvägen 10 E, plan 9 , Stockholm 106 91 , Sweden), Iván Igartua (0000-0003-2774-4985, Department of Classical Studies , University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) , Vitoria-Gasteiz 01006 , Spain)
Año2020
Volumen58
Número3
Páginas869-903
Fecha de publicación2020-05-26
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLinguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ling-2020-0083
OpenAlexW3030805171
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas51

This paper explores the hypothesis of contact-induced change for the rise of the partitive case in Finnic languages and of the partitive case/determiner in Basque. On the basis of the well-established Indo-European partitive-genitive case and taking into account the lack of such a basis on the Uralic side, we argue that the partitive case in Finnic languages has arisen as a result of Balto-Slavic influence. Concerning the Basque partitive determiner, we likewise suggest a contact scenario (with Romance languages) as being responsible for the development of an entire system of determiners, including the definite and possibly the indefinite article as well as the partitive marker, which originates in an old ablative ending but crucially lacks the morphological properties characteristic of Basque inflectional markers

Catalan · Demonstrative · Determiner · Genitive case · Language contact · Linguistics · Noun · Romance languages · Slavic languages · Basque language and culture studies · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy